Ontario Supportive Housing Policy Brief

Ontario has set a goal of ending chronic homelessness. A significant proportion of those who are homeless either have mental health problems, are youth or are Indigenous. Ending chronic homelessness requires action on these groups. This policy brief focuses on the 2 to 3 percent of the population that lives with a severe mental illness or addiction.

About Greg Suttor

Greg Suttor is a Senior Researcher at the Wellesley Institute, focusing primarily on supportive housing. An independent consultant for three years, he was previously a housing researcher and policy advisor for Toronto municipal governments. He was also a policy advisor/researcher at the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, special task forces, and the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership (three cities), as well as being active in provincial, national and local affordable housing organizations. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, on the policy history and impacts of Canadian social housing.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

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